the weblog of robin camille davis

One of the handiest things I’ve ever downloaded is Jumpcut. It extends your clipboard to 40+ items, which are easily accessed from the top of your (Mac only) screen:

I use it A LOT. Like you know when you’re filling out an application online, and you’re afraid you’ll lose everything when it times out on you? That [...]

The other day, I watched Desk Set on Netflix Instant, starring a loudmouthed Katharine Hepburn and an aging Spencer Tracy. She’s the head librarian at the reference room of the Federal Broadcasting Company in New York; he’s a visiting engineer working on a secret supercomputer project that, it is rumored, will render all the librarians [...]

Why Comic Sans? — An apology of sorts from Vincent Connare, the creator of Comic Sans. “There was no intention to include the font in other applications other than those designed for children when I designed Comic Sans.”
Ubimark — Reading books with bar codes embedded in the paragraphs that allow you to connect to relevant [...]

In trying to set my Facebook to Latin, because why not, I discovered there’s a 1337-speak option as well. Not sure how I feel about my photos section being titled “pr0n”… but I giggle every time I log in.
Also, birthdays are called “5p4wn d4t3z”. LOL.

What? A book creator app on Wikipedia?
With the book creator you can create a book containing wiki pages of your choice. You can export the book in different formats (for example PDF or ODF) or order a printed copy.
Apparently it’s been available on non-English Wikipedias for a while, but now it’s open to everyone. Part [...]

I’ve switched my concentration focus (again) to an emphasis in medieval and early modern literatures and cultures. It’s anybody’s guess if I’ll change for a fourth time before I graduate. In any case, one reason why I switched was because I’m taking so many awesome classes this semester that focus in that period, one of [...]

Google Books already has loads of public domain books online, and they’re working to get other out-of-print and currently in-print books up, too. Last November, Google settled a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild and others, and the company began to work “closely with these industry partners to bring even more of the world’s books [...]

Amazon sez: “What is Amazon PayPhrase? PayPhrase is an easy-to-remember shortcut to shipping and payment information in your Amazon.com account. Use it for Express Checkout at Amazon.com and across the web. … You can create an original PayPhrase  yourself, or select one of our suggestions.”
Robin: “What would you suggest for my PayPhrase, Amazon?”
Amazon: “My suggestions, [...]

Les Incroyables et Merveilleuses: “literally roving bands of angry dandies” in post-Revolution France. An anti-rebellion fashion statement from the upper class. Cutting your hair à la victime was in — that is, cutting your hair short the way the executioners did before they guillotined someone. Yeah. Fashion.
L’inconnue de la Seine: the most famous face in [...]

If you haven’t already, you’ve got to see The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has scanned in all 902 letters to/from VvG they have, complete with transcriptions, translations, and footnotes. Some of the letters contain sketches. You can sort his letters by recipient, place, and period. You can view [...]